GAINESVILLE, Va.  Keeping a match-play giant at bay is no small task. Just ask Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk. Throughout team play this week at the Presidents Cup, the International duo of Retief Goosen and Adam Scott tormented the American squad for 3½ points in four matches, playing near-flawless golf along the way.

Furyk jumped to a 2-up lead after four holes on the Australian, complementing his steady drives with some clutch putting and a lucky break at the par-5 10th to score a much-needed point for the U.S. squad.

"It's not about the individual," Furyk said just after finishing things off on the 16th green for a 3-and-2 victory. "It's about the team."

But the team couldn't have done without Furyk this week.

He went 3-0-2 in his matches for the week and kept his singles mark spotless (4-0) in Presidents Cup play.

"I have to thank my partners the first couple of rounds," Furyk said. "Freddie Funk really held me in there in the foursome matches on Thursday, and I said it all along, Tiger put on a show on Friday in the four ball. So I didn't really have to do too much."

Furyk, dealing with a rib injury that has affected him since Thursday, broke out of the gates on Sunday with birdies on three of the first four holes and four of his first six. After he and Scott both settled for pars to finish off the front nine, Furyk headed to the par-5 10th hole with a 2-up edge. That's when things got interesting.

Furyk smashed his drive 289 yards down the left side of the fairway, leaving him with 220 yards to the pin. But his second shot sailed right, bounced twice through the gallery and landed in a temporary trash receptacle about 30 yards from the green. Had the ball not found the trash can, it most likely would have rolled along a tree-filled hill and handed Scott the hole and some much-needed momentum.

Instead, the lucky bounce gave Furyk a free drop. He then chipped over a bunker but just short of the green, punched the ball to within 6 feet of the cup and drained the putt for par to snare a pivotal halve after Scott missed a 6-footer for birdie.

Two holes later, Scott found the water twice on the par-5 12th and conceded the hole before reaching the green. The miscue gave Furyk a 3-up lead with six holes left.

And though Scott tried to rally — he used the toe of his putter to make a 16-footer from the fringe to win the par-4 13th — Furyk stepped up and landed an approach shot within 8 feet on the 15th to go dormie with just three holes left.

"Any time you play anyone in match play, we always say it boils down to putting and today it really did," Furyk said. "I was able to knock in three or four more putts than him and that was the difference."

With six birdies and a plethora of key shots despite the nagging injury, the ever-steady Furyk did all he could to help the United States win a team competition for the first time since 2000.